boon racoon Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 i have a big computer problem. i'm running a 40gb master hard drive and I have a 40gb slave where i keep my documents. and also a 9gb slave as a scratch disk. suddenly i cannot access the 40gb slave. it shows on "my computer" but it's simply called "local disk f:\" instead of the label i gave it ("documents") and yeh...it's not accessibly in ANY way. in windows explorer, opening a file from any program etc. the other slave works all fine. this is a big concern for me. because it's near enough 4 years work & documents, music, pictures, videos..basically EVERYTHING in my life! i really hope it can be rectified and isn't permenantly crashed or anything :P please help!! i'm gettin a new pc soon so i don't really care about the drive. only getting my data back! any ideas or theories welcome help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 It could be a few things, so don't worry just yet. Virus check? Would be the first thing to try I reckon. Then I would try it on another IDE channel. Turn the PC off (At the wall) and swap the wide (IDE) cable from the broken hard disk with the one from the CD-ROM. Turn the PC on and see what windows finds. You might need to adjust the jumpers on the drive though (But worry about that if it doesn't work). If you get no luck there, I would try it with Knoppix, see if you get anything there. It's just a CD that you can put in and Linnux boots off the CD. Pretty slow, but handy for checking things like this. You can download it from HERE, but it's 700MB. Have you had a look in DOS at it? I think it depends what version of Windows you have, but if you press F8 just before the windows splash screen (keep tapping it basically), and there may be an option to get a DOS command prompt. Choose that, and then type D: (or whatever the drive letter is), then type "dir". That will give you a list of all the files on the drive. There's some things to try anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Harrison Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 What Windows is it? Check the BIOS settings on startup to see if it is recognising the drive ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Start > Run > cmd chkdsk f: /f See if that works :P If windows still recognises the drive it sounds like the file systems gone tits up. Have you had a look in DOS at it? I think it depends what version of Windows you have, but if you press F8 just before the windows splash screen (keep tapping it basically), and there may be an option to get a DOS command prompt. Choose that, and then type D: (or whatever the drive letter is), then type "dir". That will give you a list of all the files on the drive. ← If the drives formatted in NTFS it cannot be read in DOS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extreme_biker0 Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Somebody thought he'd rearrange his bedroom thought his hi-fi speakers would look good next to his computer eh? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted August 6, 2005 Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 Somebody thought he'd rearrange his bedroom thought his hi-fi speakers would look good next to his computer eh? :P ← Mine do :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extreme_biker0 Posted August 6, 2005 Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 Here are big magnets in there that f**k your hard disks up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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